He says the Queen of the Blues didn't fit the traditional image of a blues singer.
Chicago's Buddy Guy, a blues legend in his own right, gave an electrifying performance.
Doubts were raised about LaRocca's own originality as well as the practicality of trying to copyright a blues.
David Evans, a blues scholar at the University of Memphis, blames commercial developers.
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Mr. HALPIN: What they started out with was a blues jam, which basically was Smoke Stacked Lighting that turned into Spoonful.
In Cambridge, she met a blues promoter who introduced her to many of the greats, including Son House, Fred McDowell and Sippie Wallace.
Dean Ashton soon added a third to wrap up an easy win against a Blues side who did not seriously test Shaka Hislop.
On one side was a blues and on the other a dance number two forms that jazz would rely on for decades to come.
So one of his first assignments, you know, in an arranging and composing class that I took with him was to write a blues, you know?
Others play along better: In a 2001 concert, SAP co-founder Hasso Plattner got to play guitar on a blues song during a sound check with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler.
Yannick Jauzion's forward pass denied full-back Maxime Medard a clear run and a Blues chance was blown when Jamie Roberts could not hold Nicky Robinson's pass after the fly-half's 45-metre run.
Today, modern blues makers have adopted a funkier gait and more cocksure vocals than their predecessors, but no visit to the city would be near complete without seeking out a blues hall and getting the blues in person.
But their Achilles heel this season has been the absence of a sustained cutting edge up front, and so it proved again as Jermaine Beckford struggled to impose himself on a Blues defence missing ineligible new signing David Luiz.
The 34-year-old McMillian was running for mayor of Clarksdale, a Blues hub where actor and Mississippi native Morgan Freeman co-owns a music club with Howard Stovall, a Memphis entertainment executive, and Bill Luckett, who also is running for mayor.
The lush and easy ways of Memphis play a part in the drama, with visits to Graceland, a church famed for its gospel choir, and a blues bar framing the new relationships in an alluring but unsustainable cocoon of cultural legend.
The flatpicking turned heads, but the tune that followed it might be a fingerstyle blues, a Travis-flavored country bounce or a parlor song from the Carter repertoire.
Yeah, blues is exhilarating because a lot of people think of blues as a downer, but then the blues can also be an upper, too, you see.
Slim cut his first single, Scufflin, in 1966 and became a Chicago blues fixture in his own right, developing a guitar style that blended a distinct vibrato with a slide-guitar-like sound formed with his bare fingers against the strings.
He was a helluva blues rock singer in the 1960s before he became a bloated caricature of himself in later years.
Thank you. (Applause.) Ah, I've got a little blues track going on here.
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club's new album, Howl, unveils a new blues, country and gospel-inspired sound.
"We played it like a Mississippi blues, but it works better with an orchestra, " Mr. Pierce said.
But I always remembered the best anti-drug advice I ever got, from a recovered blues musician in 1989.
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Now he is looking forward to the release of a new blues disc he cut with Kenny Wayne Shepherd.
Gomez's goal, however, only served to spark a Light Blues revival.
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And, while money or possessions were never of much interest, Woody had the things he felt he needed for happiness: books, tapes and a fine blues guitar.
Parks added a second penalty to give the Blues a 13-10 lead at half-time, although David Blair was wide with a drop-goal that would have tied the scores at the break.
This year's Stomp will feature Robert Parker ("Barefootin'"), Jean Knight ("Mr. Big Stuff") and Lazy Lester, a Louisiana blues harmonica player whose song--first recorded in the 1960s--lent the festival its name.
The Munster fly-half was accurate again with a 32nd-minute penalty attempt but Rush completed a fine Blues move by showing an impressive turn of pace to touch the ball down under the posts, Blair converting.
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